Infant development : the essential readings
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Infant development : the essential readings
（Essential readings in developmental psychology）
Blackwell, 2000
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Infant Development: The Essential Readings provides students with a selection of some of the key articles by key researchers in this core area of developmental psychology and introduces the reader to the field of infancy research and to some of the current, lively controversies within this area.
Table of Contents
Preface. Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Infancy Research: History and Methods: Darwin Muir and Alan Slater.
Part I: Theoretical Issues.
Introduction.
Why Do Infants Do What They Do?.
Introduction.
1. Shifting the Focus From What to Why: C. Rovee-Collier.
The Origins of Knowledge: Nature versus Nurture.
Introduction.
2. Nativism, Empiricism, and the Origins of Knowledge: E.S. Spelke.
Connectionist Modeling.
Introduction.
3. Connectionist Modeling and Infant Development: D.Mareschal.
Part II: Sensation and Perception.
Introduction.
Fetal Sensitivity to Touch.
Introduction.
4. Maturation of Human Fetal Responses to Vibroacoustic Stimulation: B.S. Kisilevsky, D.W. Muir, and J.A. Low.
Early Visual perception.
Introduction.
5. Visual perception in the Young Infant: Early Organization and Rapid Learning: A. Slater.
Intermodal Perception.
Introduction.
6. Increasing Specificity in the Development of Intermodal Perception: L. Bahrick. Social Perception.
Introduction.
7. Look at Me: Five-Month-Old Infants' Sensitivity to Very Small Deviations in Eye-Gaze During Social Interactions: L.A. Symons, S.M. Hains, and D.W. Muir.
Speech Perception.
Introduction.
8. Becoming a Native Listener: J.F. Werker.
Part III: Cognitive Development.
Introduction.
Newborn Imitation.
Introduction.
9a. Imitation of Facial and Manual Gestures by Human Neonates: A.N. Meltzoff, and M.K Moore.
9b. Resolving the Debate about Early Imitation: A.N. Meltzoff, and M.K. Moore.
Infant Counting.
Introduction.
10. Addition and Subtraction by Human Infants: K. Wynn.
Learning About the Physical World.
Introduction.
11. How Do Infants learn About the Physical World? R. Baillargeon.
The A-not-B Error.
Introduction.
12. Why Do Infants Make A-not-B Errors in a Search Task, Yet Show Memory for the Location of Hidden Objects in a Nonsearch Task? A. Ahmed, and T. Ruffman.
Predicting Later Intelligence.
Introduction.
13. Why Does Infant Attention Predict Adolescent Intelligence? M. Sigman, S.E. Cohen, and L. Beckwith.
Part IV: Social Development and Communication:.
Introduction.
Infant-Directed Speech.
Introduction.
14. Infant Responses to Prototypical melodic Contours in Parental Speech: M. Papousek, M.H. Bornstein, C. Nuzzo, H. Papousek, and D. Symmes.
15. Early Word Comprehension in 6-Moth-Olds: R. Tincoff, and P.W. Jusczyk.
Social Referencing.
Introduction.
16. Maternal Emotional Signaling: Its Effect on the Visual Cliff Behavior of 1-Year-Olds: J.F. Sorce, R.N. Emde, J. Campos, and M.D. Klinnert.
Infant Understanding of Others' Intentions and Theory of Mind.
Introduction.
17. Fourteen-Through 18-Month-Old Infants.
Differentially Imitate Intentional and Accidental Actions: M. Carpenter, N. Akhtar, and M. Tomasello.
Social Attachments.
Introduction.
18. Stability and Transmission of Attachment across Three Generations: D. Benoit, and K. Parker.
Infants with Autism.
Introduction.
19. An Experimental Investigation of Social-Cognitive Abilities in Infants with Autism: Clinical Implications: T. Charman, J. Swettenham, S. Baron-Cohen, A. Cox, G. Baird, and A. Drew.
Index.
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